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webinar Food and Beverage

Tomorrow's Engineers Cook Up A Fast-Food Application: Lessons From A Student Competition

Learn how to structure a working project with ordering interfaces, inventory management, alarming, navigation, and more, and see development techniques, best practices, and clever design tricks that you can apply to your own Ignition projects.

58 min video

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case study Food and Beverage

Revitalized Bourbon Distillery Merges Tradition With Innovation

Bourbon distillery Castle & Key implemented Ignition at their facility in Frankfort, Kentucky, with the help of Gray AES to replace an outdated FactoryTalk system. The mobile-responsive Ignition application was Gray AES’ first large-scale project using Perspective, featuring a high-performance HMI, alarming, and reporting, but most importantly access to historical data.

10 min video

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webinar Food and Beverage

Say Yes To Any Automation Project With Ignition

At Inductive Automation, integrators and end users frequently tell us how they’ve completed projects with Ignition that would have been impossible or impractical with any other industrial automation software. In this webinar, experienced integrators will share some of these true stories with you. As you’ll see, adding Ignition to your toolset can take you from having to say “sorry, we can’t” to declaring “yes, we can!”

60 min video

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case study Recycling

Driving Efficiency and Visibility at rPlanet Earth

rPlanet Earth partnered with Kanoa to implement Kanoa MES — a modular, composable manufacturing execution system built specifically for Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform.

7 min read

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Which Ignition Edition Is Right For Your System?

Inductive Automation offers multiple editions of Ignition created for specific use cases. See what differentiates Ignition, Ignition Edge, Ignition Cloud Edition, and Ignition Maker Edition, as well as examples that highlight where each edition excels and situations they are not designed for.

7 min video

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What Is OEE?

How efficient is your organization with its manufacturing time? How do you know? Overall Equipment Effectiveness, or OEE, is the industry-standard metric that considers three ratios — availability, performance, and quality — to determine how efficiently your machine, process, or entire facility is running. This video takes a step-by-step approach to calculating each ratio and determining your OEE benchmark.

7 min video

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Design Like A Pro: 25+ Hidden Gems That Make Your Project Shine

Join us as two of Inductive Automation’s Ignition experts share insider tips and tricks for building projects more efficiently, working with containers, and tapping into a wealth of knowledge and resources from Ignition’s global community.

58 min video

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case study

Clovis Community College Puts Industry 4.0 Into The Hands Of Students & Teachers

Next to the robotic arms, the off-the-shelf miniature smart homes may not appear to be a key part of Clovis Community College’s Automation, Robotics & Mechatronics lab, but this unassuming hardware is providing students and instructors alike with a unique opportunity to build industry-grade automation applications.

12 min video

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Going ‘All-In’ With Ignition: Insights From Leading Integrators

In this webinar, a panel of leading integrators will delve into their journey with Ignition — from first learning about it to making it their application-building platform of choice — and how this journey has helped their teams reach new heights of success.

57 min video

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article White Paper

Phased Deployment Methods

By leveraging common design patterns and standardized templates, teams can accelerate deployments while maintaining consistency across each environment.

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Ignition + AWS Guide: Edge-to-Cloud Resiliency & Disaster Recovery

Ignition supports resilient architectures with features such as built-in redundancy and failover, store-and-forward to maintain data integrity, and support for edge computing and MQTT to enable decentralized processing and reduce reliance on central servers.

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How To Choose a System Integrator

As modern organizations look to improve operations with new forms of automation, one question always comes up first: “Where do I start?” Odds are, these days you need an integrator. As experts in connecting OT and IT, control system integrators bridge the gap between the plant floor and information technology. Take a tour of Inductive Automation’s Find an Integrator tool to find which integrator can help you achieve your goals.

5 min video

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webinar Energy

License To Thrive: Bypass Project Roadblocks With Unlimited Licensing

Join us for this webinar to see what a huge difference Ignition’s unlimited licensing model can make in your future projects!

56 min video

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case study Pharmaceuticals

Sterilization Scheduling Application Eliminates Recipe Control Gap For Pharmaceutical Manufacturer

In an industry like pharmaceuticals, maintaining quality and compliance is a strict requirement, not an optional goal. Outdated or ineffective technologies and methods can not only hamper efficiency, but also stunt growth and potentially affect product quality. That was the situation Sandalwood Systems Integration Group found itself in with one customer who was having difficulty bridging the gap between their scheduling application and their ERP system.

6 min read

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webinar Oil and Gas

Teaming Up To Enable Digital Transformation & Unified Namespace

This webinar will highlight the benefits of using all partners within the Inductive Automation ecosystem to achieve seamless digitalization and a Unified Namespace (UNS) with reduced complexity and time.

60 min video

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case study Building Automation

How Inductive Automation Uses Ignition

Here at Inductive Automation, we have found plenty of everyday uses for Ignition because it allows us to create customized tools that generate tremendous value. Discover a few of the ways we leverage our own software platform.

17 min video

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The Purdue Model And Ignition

In the automation world, the Purdue Model (also known as the Purdue reference model, Purdue network model, ISA 95, or the Automation Pyramid) is a well-known architectural framework for industrial control systems (ICS).

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What Are PLC Programming Languages?

Odds are, you’ve heard of Ladder Logic, the ubiquitous PLC programming language favored by many industrial professionals, but most organizations utilize multiple languages for their PLC programming needs. See how learning about all five common languages — Ladder Logic, Function Block Diagram, Sequential Function Charts, Structured Text, and Instruction List — will expand your PLC programming skills and let you get a leg up on your peers.

7 min video

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icc | 2024 Community Session

Kanoa Exhibitor Demo: Kanoa: MES for the Masses

Kanoa MES is a modern Smart Manufacturing solution designed in and for Ignition. Learn about the Kanoa MES Modules, Kanoa MES Database, and Kanoa APP Ignition project you'll use to get started with Kanoa MES. Check out a live demo of Kanoa Ops and Kanoa Quality to see how you can configure your MES in days and get insights into your manufacturing data with ease.

33 min video

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icc | 2024 Community Session

Demystifying The Unified Namespace with Ignition

Unified Namespaces (UNS) have the power to streamline OT data by breaking through communication barriers between devices and applications. By leveraging the Ignition platform and MQTT, UNS can open the door to transformative potential for operational and enterprise applications. But what even is a UNS? Join Cirrus Link as they leverage Ignition and MQTT to implement UNS and their transformative potential for applications, and share details about the core functionalities of UNS. By the end of the session you'll be equipped with the knowledge to harness the power of unified data and unlock new possibilities for your industrial operations.

48 min video

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icc | 2024 Community Session

Phoenix Contact Exhibitor Demo: Enabling the Digital Transformation

Learn more about our networking and automation portfolio as a complement to Ignition. We will showcase our PLCnext technology with Modular I/O, Ethernet switches, and new MQTT / MODBUS protocol converter products. We will introduce you to new upcoming technologies based on Single Pair Ethernet and APL.

29 min video

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icc | 2024 Community Session

SafetyChain Exhibitor Demo: The SafetyChain Module for Ignition: Leveraging Real Time Data & Driving Productivity

Learn how process manufacturers are leveraging the power of SafetyChain & Ignition to drive meaningful value in their production environments. We’ll cover how manufacturers benefit from seamlessly connected systems and the broader impact that has on various segments of their operations. You’ll hear about a case study where thousands of data points derived from a complex manufacturing process were leveraged to drastically improve quality and production metrics. Finally, we will showcase how easy it is for manufacturers to connect SafetyChain and Ignition with a live demo.

29 min video

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icc | 2024 Community Session

Eurotech Exhibitor Demo: Discover the Benefits of Running Ignition on Cybersecure and Certified Devices

Eurotech will showcase the benefits of running Ignition on an ISA62443-4-2 certified device. This demonstration will highlight how Eurotech's advanced device management capabilities can simplify the process for OT systems integrators to securely manage applications remotely. Attendees will gain insights into how the integration of Eurotech's ReliaCOR 40-13 Industrial PC with Ignition software provides a robust and cybersecure foundation for industrial applications. This collaboration not only meets stringent cybersecurity standards but also enhances the efficiency and scalability.

32 min video

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icc | 2024 Community Session

Snowflake Exhibitor Demo: Unlocking Smart Manufacturing with IT/OT Convergence on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud

Modern manufacturing generates vast amounts of data from diverse sources, creating challenges in data integration and utilization. Traditionally, data silos have hindered the scalability of analytics across manufacturing and supply chains. The Snowflake AI Data Cloud breaks down these barriers by seamlessly converging IT and OT data, accelerating smart manufacturing initiatives. Join us to explore how Snowflake empowers manufacturers to harness the full potential of their data, driving innovation and operational excellence in the era of AI and Industry 4.0.

27 min video

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